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Tweet Voters in Portland have for the umpteenth time stopped fluoridation of their water , not long after my water district voted to fund it here in Santa Clara County. I used to live in Portland and still visit regularly. The city relies on a famous-to-Portland protected watershed for its water supply, the Bull Run watershed near Mount Hood.
Richard Tol is quite busy trying out for his new career as a web based comedian over at twitter. If there is one thing that Cook et al. are to be thanked for it is the meltdowns that they have set off at Lucia’s and Tol’s. Eli has been having a bit of fun here and there, but he needs to share the glory with Tom Curtis at Brisbane’s Waters and our friend Willard in the comments at Rabett Run , Dana and many others. To be honest, and Eli is an honest Rabett, Tol has dug this one so deep that he has called out the Chewbacca team .
John Mashey said… A definition of small government:when *your* state is in trouble from disaster, Federal help would be wasteful, but when it’s my state, it’s different.May we should do this differently.1) States can either opt in or out of Federal or regional disaster aid, and if opt in, pay for it, i.e., to spread the risk
View article: The "doing something that’s short of everything is nothing" fallacy
and the dreaded Disputed Suffice it to say, they were strongly in line with what Cook, et al, have come up with, but not nearly so well done. Also those early bunnies were querulous, something that Eli has never, never been accused of. Now some, not Eli to be sure, have been trying to trash Cook, et al., which has just been published as open access, even before it appeared. The recursive fury has been something to see
The choices are Explicit Endorsement with Quantification: abstract explicitly states that humans are causing more than half of global warming. Explicit Endorsement without Quantification: abstract explicitly states humans are causing global warming or refers to anthropogenic global warming/climate change as a given fact.
Tweet Climate sensitivity: how has the Earth responded in the past?